Wenner-Gren Funding permitted the construction of a 1.6km boardwalk system leading from camp to the east and north through the center of the 200ha Sungai Lading study area was constructed. The boardwalk was constructed by a team of local villagers by mounting ca. 25cm wide x 2m long boards on wooden stakes at variable heights between 18 - 125cm above the peat swamp. The boardwalk was essential to working in this particular swamp forest, which is located deep within the flood zone, in order to efficiently move throughout the transect system. Without such a boardwalk, it would take up to twice as long to reach the orangutan morning nest and to return to camp after the focal lies down on its nest in the evening during the rainy season. The rainy season in this area lasts between 7-8 months of the year with water levels reaching nearly 2m at the height of the season. Considering that even with a boardwalk observers must leave camp by 3:30 each morning and do not return to camp until well after dark each evening, this project would have been impossible without such a boardwalk system.

Anya Bernstein with one of her ethnographic consultants, a Siberian Buryat nun Ani Tenzin, at a pilgrimage site in Himachal Pradesh, India. (February 2008) The statue is of Padmasambhava (still under construction), a great Buddhist saint who brought Buddhism from India to Tibet.

Laura Bidner and professional wildlife trapper, Dairen Simspon, with a young, adult, female leopard fitted with a radio-collar for monitoring during the study. Loskop Dam Nature Reserve, South Africa (August 2006).

Carolyn Fisher conducting an interview with Arcadia Escorcia in her home. Doña Arcadia is a small-scale coffee farmer in Matagalpa, Nicaragua and member of a fair-trade certified producers´ cooperative. (December, 2006.)

Grantee at work with the vice president of the peasant community, Víctor Gallardo, who supervises the researchers. In the background are the khipus. In the foreground, the leaf is coca and the bag is a coca bag or walki. A small coca offering is essential when approaching the khipus, and you must also pronounce an invocation to the effect of, "khipu house and storehouse, let it be for the good, with your assent, with our good will." The reason the men have their hats off is that this creates a sacred context. Hats are so much part of the male profile that, in the locally invented deaf-mute gestural language, the sign form "man" is to touch an imagined or real hat brim.

Masako Fujita in front of a field station with her research assistant, Abdilatif Khalifa. The pigeon in his hand is a gift for Masako from a member of the study community, Kituruni. The children in the photo are children of research staff members and neighbors. Kituruni, Marsabit District, Kenya (August, 2006).

Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi in 2005 with dear friend Iqbal Mansuri, cloth merchant in Ahmedabad. The picture was taken by a local mujawar (religious caretaker) of the Rani-no-Haziro (built 1445 A.D.), the shrine in honor of Bibi Mughali, the wife of Sultan Muhammad Shah II. The tomb is located opposite the King's tomb at Manek Chowk in the heart of old Ahmedabad.

During fieldwork Naomi Haynes (right) chats with Mrs. Mwanza (center), the wife of a Pentecostal pastor, while Bana Shalom (left), a former member of Mrs. Mwanza’s church, does her hair. On the Copperbelt, believers frequently move from one church to another, but often (as in this case) maintain relationships with members of churches they used to attend.